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Region：Japan
Type：OVA
English name：R.O.D: Read or Die / R.O.D - Read or Die
Official name：R.O.D -READ OR DIE-
Chinese name：读或死 OVA
Other names：超能R.O.D OVA / 超能R.O.D
Premiered：May 23, 2001
Status：Finished Airing
Tags：Science fiction / Lily / Action / Combat / Source novel
Original author：倉田英之
Director：舛成孝二
Scenario：倉田英之
Storyboard：舛成孝二
Co-director：舛成孝二
Studios：スタジオディーン
Producers：スタジオオルフェ / ANIPLEX
Family：R.O.D - Read or Die
Rating：12+

R.O.D: Read or Die

Nerdy Yomiko Readman is obsessed with books.

As Agent Paper, she works for a secret branch of the British Library, where her power to control paper via telekinesis helps her on missions to retrieve rare manuscripts and protect the world from evil.

But all Yomiko really wants to do is read her new book.

Unfortunately it has been stolen by the I-gin, clones of historical figures who believe Yomiko's book holds the key to unlocking Beethoven's lost Death Symphony.

Anyone who hears the tune is compelled to commit suicide, and the I-gin intend to broadcast it all over the world.

Only Yomiko, along with fellow superagents Drake and Miss Deep, have a chance of stopping them.

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EP1 - Volume 1

Yomiko Readman, known as The Paper , is a superhuman agent of the Library's Special Operations. The OVA based on the Read or Die manga series created by Hideyuki Kurata was created by Studio Deen in early 2001 and distributed outside Japan by Manga Entertainment in 2003. The series, directed by Koji Masunari, features the main characters of the original manga such as Yomiko Readman and Joker. It is a continuation of the 'Read or Die' storyline, taking place a few years after the events of the manga. In the OVA, Yomiko goes into debt to buy a rare copy of a book called die Unsterbliche Liebe or Immortal Beloved . The book is dusty and dirty, but has sheet music handwritten in its pages, in the margins and on the blank pages in the back and front. Almost immediately she is attacked by a super-human-like clone of Jean Henri Fabre. He tries to steal her book, but using her paper techniques she fights back and wins. Various superpowered clones or I-Jin of famous historical figures try to steal her book throughout the OVA. They are trying to use the sheet music in the book to reconstruct Ludwig van Beethoven's supposedly lost Death Symphony, which causes anyone who hears it to commit suicide. Eventually, Yomiko, with the assistance of her friends Nancy Makuhari and Drake Anderson, helps in destroying the leader of the plot, a clone of Zen poet Ikkyu Soujon. Yomiko loses her friend Nancy in the conflict and, heartbroken, vows to take care of Nancy's younger sister, her clone, who has suffered brain damage during the events of the I-Jin incident.
EP2 - Volume 2

偉人軍団にアメリカ議会図書館から奪われた稀覯本｢不滅の恋｣の下巻が、発見されたとの報告を受け読子、ナンシー、ドレイクたちは大英図書館特殊工作部の潜水艦でインドへと向かっていた。現地に到着した読子はナンシーと共に早速、ジョーカーから報告のあった雑貨屋へと向かう。そこで彼女たちを待っていたのは偉人軍団の一人、玄奘であった。彼は読子が持っているもう一対の稀覯本を奪い取るため、ここで待ち伏せをしていたのだ。こうして、読子が持つ一冊の稀覯本を巡って、偉人軍団と大英図書館特殊工作部の壮絶なるバトルの火蓋がいま再び切って落とされようとしていた!
EP3 - Volume 3

信頼していたパートナー、ナンシーの裏切り…・・。いまだにそのことが信じられないまま偉人軍団殲滅のため、ドレイクと共に偉人要塞へと向かう読子。しかし、偉人要塞に接近したとたん、ファーブルの操るカブト虫の攻撃により、読子たちの乗ったオスプリーは撃墜されてしまう。間一髪、難を逃れた二人は偉人要塞内部への潜入に成功するが、ドレイクは偉人軍団の罠に落ち、読子は待ち受けていたファーブルにより囚われの身となってしまうのだった。米海軍の攻撃をものともせず、着々と進行する偉人軍団の『人類一斉淘汰作戦』。人類滅亡へのカウントダウンが始まる…・・。